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Heat cramps
Heat cramps: Painful muscle spasms in the abdomen, arms, or legs following strenuous activity. The skin is usually moist and cool and the pulse is normal or slightly raised. Body temperature is mostly normal. Heat cramps often are caused…
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Show more- Belly button The navel or umbilicus. The one-time site of attachment of the umbilical cord. The term 'belly button' was…
- Empirical Based on experience and observation, rather than systematic logic. Experienced physicians often use empirical…
- Melanoderma Increased skin pigmentation, darkening of the skin. This is directly due to an increased amount of melanin…
- Vampire children Perjorative term for children with xeroderma pigmentosum, a genetic disease with such extraordinary…
- Audiometry The measurement of hearing.
- Ankle pain Pain in the ankle, a 'hinged' joint. Ankle pain is commonly due to a sprain or tendinitis. The severity of…
- Diabetes skin condition See: Diabetic skin disease
- Orientation, anatomic terms of See Anatomic terms of orientation
- Travel-related disease A disease to which travelers are susceptible specifically because of their travel. Travel-related diseases…
- Ophthalmic artery The ophthalmic artery supplies blood to the eye and adjacent structures of the face. It arises from the…
- Deafness and Communication Disorders, Institute Institute on (NIDCD): One of the US National Institutes of Health. The mission of the National Institute on…
- Cerebral arterial gas embolism (CAGE) Gas bubbles traveling and lodging (embolizing) in the arteries that supply the brain with blood (and oxygen)…